Today’s Reading:
Song of Songs 2
Listen! I hear my lover’s voice. I know it’s him coming to me— leaping with joy over mountains, skipping in love over the hills that separate us, to come to me. Let me describe him: he is graceful as a gazelle, swift as a wild stag. Now he comes closer, even to the places where I hide. He gazes into my soul, peering through the portal as he blossoms within my heart. The one I love calls to me: Arise, my dearest. Hurry, my darling. Come away with me! I have come as you have asked to draw you to my heart and lead you out. For now is the time, my beautiful one.
Song of Songs 2:8-10 TPT
I heard the Spirit of the Living Loving God of All Creation say,
Partnership is what I desire. Deep abiding friendship and kinship. Connected hearts. I long to walk with you in the cool of the day and converse about what is on our hearts. I desire for you to share your secrets with Me, to pursue My heart, My wisdom and My best. And I want to share My secrets with you and unveil mysteries and keys that unlock the future. This is a time of invitation. This is a time where that invitation is hanging palpably in the air, beckoning you to come and commune with Me. Come and remember with Me. Come and daydream and cast great, big, wide-open vision with Me.
The season has changed, the bondage of your barren winter has ended, and the season of hiding is over and gone. The rains have soaked the earth and left it bright with blossoming flowers. The season for singing and pruning the vines has arrived. I hear the cooing of doves in our land, filling the air with songs to awaken you and guide you forth.
Song of Songs 2:11-12 TPT
This is the preamble to the next chapter. You have left the old but the new remains to be written. This is the mezzanine where you open your heart and mind to vast possibilities. This is the place of remembrance and recounting My great faithfulness. This is the protected space where even old, seemingly impossible, seemingly dead, seemingly out of time dreams are brought to the surface, and you can hold them up before Me and say, “Oh Papa, can these dry bones live? Would you breathe on even these hopeless, impossible dry bones? Would you make these bones My vast working army in the new chapter that we have entered into?” Bring those delicate, even painful dreams, promises, hopes, ambitions and great desires to Me. Offer them up. Lay them before Me.
Can you not discern this new day of destiny breaking forth around you? The early signs of my purposes and plans are bursting forth. The budding vines of new life are now blooming everywhere. The fragrance of their flowers whispers, “There is change in the air.” Arise, my love, my beautiful companion, and run with me to the higher place. For now is the time to arise and come away with me.
Song of Songs 2:13 TPT
This is a great incubation time. You will see new life spring forth from it. Take My hand. Come sit up here with Me. Make the space and the time to share your heart, your dreams, your hopes and disappointments with Me. Behold I Am making all things new, and I make all things beautiful in their time. This is the time of incubation and hatching. This is the time where propagation gives way to sprouting. This is the time and the protected space that births the new.
How to Respond
- Make time to get quiet and get alone with the Lord. Recount His faithfulness. Open up your heart and lay all of it before Him.
- Pray, Holy Spirit thank You that You are always with me. You never leave me nor forsake me. You haven’t forgotten a single promise You’ve made to me. Before a word is on my tongue, You know it completely. Help me to be vulnerable with You. Help me to lay all of these dreams in my heart before You along with all the disappointments and delays. Help me to dream with You afresh and stir up expectation because of Your unfailing, great faithfulness. Thank You for Your invitation to pull back from the hurriedness of life and commune with You.
- Declare, nothing is impossible for the Lord. He never lies, He never leaves, He never fails, He never forgets and He never loses. He is always faithful. Great is His faithfulness to me. And He is always victorious. He is the friend who sticks closer than a brother.
- Decree, I will make space in my life in this time. I accept the invitation to draw near to the Lord in honest vulnerability and share my heart with Him. I will be quiet and listen for Him to share His heart with me too. This is the place where the Lord will breathe on dead, hopeless, impossible dreams and bring them to life. This is the place where the Lord will hatch new opportunities, connections and relationships. The time I take with the Lord in the beginning of this new season will unlock and write this new chapter.
For more encouragement from The Glory & the New Wine, check out the post from this day in years past:
2023: Your Mind Is Your Universe & Your Words Are A Weapon
2022: Walk As A Ruler, Not As the Ruled
2021: A Call to Occupy
